RMS and his contributions...

the government. Schools are required to teach proprietary software (at least, some schools are, because they are under the control of the universities that require it, who in turn are controlled by the government bodies that require it). This is wrong. So any government that tells people to teach proprietary software is essentially delivering the country into the hands of a company. The Tamil Nadu government is distributing laptops with Windows to the children. Well, that’s delivering the future of the state to a company. It’s wrong. I have heard that they have now settled for a dualboot system. Dualboot means providing some ethical software and some unethical software. That’s like saying Qwhat

do you rate as your favourite contribution to Free Software? I don’t have one. But if you talk about contributions done by me, I would say, in a narrowly practical sense, it’s GNU Emacs. I use this program all the time. If you ask me that of all the things that I have done, which one is most important, it’s the launching of the Free Software Movement, and leading the development of the GNU system. Qwhich

is your favourite distro? I am using gnewsense, but I don’t want to have preferences between free distros. Until recently, this was the only distro that could run on my computer. However, I am told that Parabola also runs on it, so I will try that.